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J.K. Rowling is writing a novel for adults
By EJ DicksonFebruary 23rd, 2012, 5:30 pmComments (6)
When J.K. Rowling announced in a 2007 interview that she was working on a project for adults, everyone naturally assumed that she was referring to a compilation of Harry Potter erotica (and by "everyone," I of course mean, "perverted dorks" and "dorky perverts"). But readers' dreams of a Rowling-penned Dobby/Kreacher horizontal encounter were cruelly dashed today after publishing group Little, Brown and Company announced that Rowling has signed a deal to write her first novel for adults, which the press release says will be "very different from the Harry Potter series."
The project is Rowling's first venture with Little, Brown, marking a departure from her fifteen-year partnership with British publisher Bloomsbury, who published the Harry Potter series. But Rowling's agent Neil Blair says that she'll stay with Bloomsbury while working on this manuscript. "As her new book is for a different audience, and marks a new literary direction for her, it made sense to separate the two and for her new book to be launched by a different publisher," Blair said.
Further details about the novel, such as the title of the book and the date of its publication, will be revealed later this year, which gives Harry Potter fans a few months to make wild, unfounded speculations about the project. So get to work on that.
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I respect her, but based on the HP books, she's a very poor writer.
Her writing style in HP was not especially striking, and her character development could be lacking. She was guilty of writing books for children. (And one or two cringeworthy errors, yes. One use of the word "ancestor" in The Chamber of Secrets comes to mind.)
But her worldbuilding and plot development skills are all but unmatched, especially if you look at children's/YA lit. As someone who may have looked down on her writing style when HP was first making it big - I was an idiot. Writing as a career has shown me that I can only dream of plot developments as subtle and well-theorized as some of hers. (And yes, she has some magic wand-waving. I dare you to do better.)
The plot of this adult novel is about a woman who flukes it big on the back of some average writing, after pilfering innumerous ideas from various obscure writers.
Be more jealous and troll harder.
YAHOO! Got 1 response. :o)
As a self proclaimed potter head, I'm curious as to what JK is going to write about. I assume it'll not involve magic as that's too close a parallel to HP. It would be interesting to see her take a stab at some 'real world' story line. The only unforgivable thing she can do (cause avada kedavra and the lot aren't real) is write about vampires or werewolves. As intriguing as it would be to think about her writing with those creatures as the characters, there are far too many vampire/werewolf stories out there. Mainly I'm thinking of twilight, but I despise that series so I'm kind of biased.
Her ability to create creatures, such as the dementors, allows for an infinite range of possibilities. She could just create a whole new species on another planet that we encounter or a special 'breed' of humans that have a certain ability, who knows. I'll definitely give whatever she ends up publishing a read.